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hey how do you doodly do

in this episode we will talk about ocean

plastic pollution

as i team up with a project named in the

same boat

who is cleaning the beautiful norwegian

archipelago from plastic waste this

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in norway we have a pretty good system

for returning plastic bottles

whenever you buy a soda you also pay a

small fee that will be returned to you

when you return the bottle in a machine

like this

more than 80 percent of our plastic

bottles are returned

and you rarely see empty plastic bottles

left as trash on our streets

we pride ourselves by this and tourists

visiting often react on how clean our

cities are

so i honestly didn't know we had such a

huge problem with plastic pollution in

our country

but i did know we are using way more

plastic than we could possibly need

why do all these fruits and vegetables

need to be wrapped in plastic

cucumbers are single packed in plastic

so are bell peppers

broccoli cauliflower and celery to

mention a few

why it is just to make it pretty

in the shop to sell more and we as

customers have come to accept this

even in the hardware stores we see

plastic tools wrapped in plastic

just to display in an appealing way that

is insane

plastic is not a bad product in fact it

is a very good product

it is everlasting and that is the

problem it is in everything

and that is a problem we totally lost

control over how we use it

and how we deal with the waste

in the same boat are trying to do

something about that locally

while we never see any of the big

organizations picking plastic

these guys do and i decided to join them

for a day to learn about their methods

and see with my own eyes if this problem

is as huge as they say

but before the hard working start we

have an amazing boat ride in front of us

in a magic scenery

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so

uh here right in front of us that's

where we moored yesterday and this is

also where we found

a hotspot um so i'm going to try to

moria myself

but if you want you can have a look on

the other side if you get more with

burns because there's another hotspot

right on the opposite side

side but on the same island

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they chose this spot to uh to anchor

because

they had already observed there was a

lot of plastic and rubbish here

so let's go see what i found

that's a huge nut

oh and there's more plastic

damn there's a lot of plastic yeah and

you

realize there's a lot more when you step

on stuff suddenly just cracks i hurt

this one

you reach down and you just find plastic

so it's all over

it may come as a surprise to many that

i'm now bringing up an

environmental issue on my channel

because people who knows me also know

that i'm not a big

fan of the man-made climate hysteria or

the idea of letting a 16 year old school

drop

out dictate what is good and bad for a

planet

so maybe it's easy to think that i do

not care of the environment at all

but i do i have many reasons for not

buying into that hype

but i won't get into all that here the

point i'm trying to make

is that while we spend a lot of efforts

fighting an invisible demon

that may or may not have any impact over

we often end up

doing worse while covering our guilt

with good intentions

in the meantime it seems that nobody

wants to see the problems that are right

in front of us

how we where we eat our politicians

don't care

media don't care and royalties and

celebrities don't care

because they're all busy chasing the

same demon like if

it is our new religion

but what will we do with a comfortable

climate if we no longer have anything to

eat

micro plastic is in the soil in our

water

in the oceans and in our food let's

fight this demon instead

i would love to hear your opinions in

the comments below

but as we all know this topic is a can

of worms

try to act civilized and respect other

people's opinions

thank you

holy crap i didn't think

we're gonna see so much plastic in so

little time

this really surprised me

and the plastic is broken and you can

see you lift up one piece and

there's a lot of underneath

this may even look like it's staged or

something but it's not

they came here because they had observed

a lot of plastics right here

but i didn't expect it to be this much

and much of much of this plastic is

actually equipment from fishing not all

of it has been thrown out as garbage

i guess most of it has

drifted off by accident in bad weather

or anything like that no

this is not a dumpster

this is crazy

seriously i had no idea you could find

so much plastic in

such a little area well this is

like average especially

oh really yeah so

you know in a big hotspot you can feel

that both just in one spot

but this is more like uh the average uh

amount

around here and a lot of uh of the finds

here our fishing gear or

yeah from uh industrial activity

especially fishing

yeah like this uh fish crates yeah and

these cans here are from something

industrial this is nothing i probably

personally have

no it's not

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a big ship can be a fishing vessel or

something

yeah something else um and of course the

big

fishing net up there is uh the ropes and

the nets

from a trawler a big part of the tonnage

we

get in

no i i expected to find plastic but i

didn't expect to see this much in one

little spot

yeah and of course the the big stuff is

easy to see but if you go down there

in the seaweed and you start dig you'll

find thousands of small pieces

yeah ropes and uh yeah pieces of ropes

these

ropes and noodles even you know what

about knurls no

that's this small it's like two

millimeters big small pellets

that is uh the the material they used

to make plastic from plastic it is

plastic but i just melt it and make

fish crates or styrofoam boxes or

whatever

look at how beautiful this place is

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can i borrow some room with you

do you want it back afterwards no thank

you you can you can keep it

you need some weight

how long did it take you guys to collect

all of this plastic

only in this area that's crazy

shocking yeah yeah it is it is shocking

i knew

i knew we would find plastic but i

didn't have any idea you would find

these amounts

and he says this is not much no

it's a walk in the park

oh yeah

we're gonna make stick breads yes

and you made the dough before we went

and yeah that's the way we do it

yeah and we this crew has

always had a a spicy

dough but today the other crew with nemo

they have a sweet dough

i wonder what it is in it

every year we have a tv hosted

fundraising in norway for an

organization

who works for a cause like human rights

fighting diseases

or something environmental this year the

fundraising goes to the wwf

the worldwide fund for nature especially

for their job cleaning

the ocean from plastic to me that sounds

funny

i have never seen these guys in suits

picking plastic on our shores

ever they are too busy doing useless

politics

they also support the destruction of our

nature with huge

wind turbines who is killing birds and

insects while providing litter or no

energy

this is actually a very hot topic in

norway just now

as many have turned into activists

trying to stop this madness

in my opinion i would rather donate to

in the same boat

because i know these guys will go out

there and get their hands dirty and the

beaches clean

sail mermaid will donate 1000 norwegian

kroner during the same boat

while totally ignoring the tv fundraiser

it took a group of 12 people less than

three hours of collecting plastic

to fill these two boats up with just

about two tons of plastic waste this day

we now return to the landfilling where

20 tons

of plastic was already waiting for more

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wow what a massive pile of plastic

all the plastic you can see here these

guys have been picking up from the

beaches

in the archipelago around here

how crazy is this

spending this day with the crew from in

the same boat was a real eye-opener for

me

i was shocked and overwhelmed about the

extent of this problem

but i was also full of admiration in

this crew and what they achieved in such

a short time

knowing that these people travel far to

do this job for free

is amazing respect

in my personal opinion i would much

rather support a local organization like

this

who is actually out there doing the work

then spending my money on some big

organization

who is all about administration politics

fancy dinners and good-looking suits

because you never see them out there

getting their hands dirty

i have also done an interview with rolf

the leader of in the same boat

where we talk about the job they do and

the challenges they are facing doing it

this video is coming up next on my

channel

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